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Two Blind Brothers Interview
As a PhD student studying diseases affecting vision, one of the goals of my blog is to expose what vision loss is like. I had the privilege of interviewing the Two Blind Brothers, Bryan and Bradford Manning about their experience with Stargardt Di...
Post · June 02, 2022
Foster PhD student wins Dare to Care Dissertation Award for microfinance research
Post · June 02, 2022
What did I learn in my a non-academic job
The opportunity to grow and learn is often why people choose a PhD and academia but after 7 years my growth has slowed. I don't think I ever learnt so much in a year as in my first non-academic job. I published a thread on Twitter about the key t...
Post · June 01, 2022
Why is it called Dirac point exactly?
Concepts used: Hamiltonian, eigenvalues, dispersion.
Some of my articles are using Dirac points:
Dirac point in a photonic system (microcavity): Experimental investigation of a non-Abelian gauge field in 2D perovskite photonic platform
Massle...
Post · May 31, 2022
My Paganism - positive account
This is the positive account to Paganism and my religiosity, which is missing in the previous part from 2020. These two parts are logically unrelated, which means that should my positive account lack persuasive power to the reader or to my future ...
Post · May 31, 2022